I have found several popular articles (e.g. ScienceDaily, The Globe and Mail, and WebMD) indicating that children with Autism have a significantly elevated risk of drowning. The general theory seems ...

Say a manager emailing the people under her in a way that to them feels degrading, and putting down. But at the end of the email its encouraging/uplifting type saying I know you are intelligent and ...

I am currently working on a project with a few students. It's an app that can test the big 5 personality test. The problem is, I am having trouble finding one that is under an open license and that we ...

I know that our preferences and tastes help shape our behaviors and what activities we willingly engage in, but I also know that being faced with indecision is a common feature of the human experience....

It seems to me that some survival mechanisms working in us make the act of analyzing family members behaviour very difficult. We tend to perceive the family's behaviours as normal, even if there are ...

I think I’ve came across a contradiction in relation to these two phenomenon.
On the one hand there is the following example: there was a vintage advert against pollution whereby a lot of people were ...

In this paper, it states that "Consistent with neuroimaging evidence suggesting that distinct circuits anticipate gain and loss,..."
However in this paper, it states "..., these results are consistent ...

This is something that has always puzzled me about human behavior on online auction platforms. I am talking about a specific platform where you can sell almost any item you want with a starting bid ...

For example, personally I'm quite irritable. It's not hard to irritate me and I swear either through an inner voice or whisper very often, but not out-loud. That does not happen very often. This is ...

Is it strange or categorically bad to say things that shock others knowingly, and enjoy their reaction?
I have a close friend who partakes in such behavior, and I want to understand his motivation a ...

I am writing an allegation letter to obtain funds to enroll in an activity for personal development, although the frame in which I ask for the finds is in "transversal activities related to research ...

1) Is there any set of rules that human beings or, more generally, other sentient living beings know a priori before any learning process?
In other words, do sentient living beings always were born ...

From wikipedia article sexual motivation and hormones, it is said that testosterone/estrogen, oxytocin and vasopressin are stimulating sexual behaviour. But I'm wondering if any of these hormones are ...

Meditation seems to be one of the top techniques recommended nowadays for self-development (e.g. McGonigal, K. 2011). For people who want to overcome behavioural addictions (i.e. any "addiction that ...

I've been researching learned helplessness lately, an idea that seems to be responsible for much of the negative behavior observed in humans. Basically, the idea is that once repeatedly exposed to an ...

Do twin studies overestimate heritability (for instance by putting the interaction between environment and genome under the label "heritable")? If so why? Would you have any research papers to point ...

I want to know if there is an established psychology term for this pattern of behavior:
A person does something, an action
That something becomes known to one or more people, and the action is seen ...

I have seen a lot of research on concentration or focus in the short term. But what about concentration and focus in the long term? For example, if I set a goal to write a novel over the course of 4 ...

OK, you might have to bare with me on this one.
The concept that someone might influence another, even through suggestions, has never once sat comfortably with me.
Across the internet people seem to ...

Is there a name for the types of human behavioural problems where making a particular choice isn't a problem, but making the same choice over and over again leads to a bad outcome? Where there is an ...

Suppose person X is looking for something he has lost. Instead of thinking he left it somewhere, he is convinced that person Y has taken it. X is so convinced of this that he will not even look for ...

Sorry for giving this such a vague title, as it is slightly difficult to explain.
The debate about differences in behaviour (say between the genders) is normally characterised as nature vs. nurture - ...

Is there a relative diagnosis for someone who can't simply adapt to and/or use something that is already established? This type of personality would also need to have their own idea to validate their ...

Is the natural avoidance of incest something that is learned or is the human brain programmed by instinct to have a negative response to incest? This of course would have an evolutionary advantage and ...

I'm gonna talk about Russia. :) I'm not interested in foreign policy, relations, for this question... maybe just a tiny bit.
A little preamble.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union (hereinafter S....

I have a strong belief that being a bilingual or multilingual when we switch from one language to another our behavior change accordingly. For example, my native language is Urdu, I feel comfortable, ...

Here's how I understand how the brain rewarding system works, as described by behaviorism:
When I eat a chocolate after learning, there's a chance that I'll connect the learning with the pleasurable ...

A research like: “of 100 families that we studied we found: biological siblings had stronger/weaker bond vs. half-siblings vs non-biological and 40 years later their relationship was found stronger/...